‘AI or Not AI’ lecture series features top digital artists and thinkers

February 28, 2024.Reading time 9 minutes.

“I want our students and community members to be exposed to open-ended conversations throughout the two months of ten different workshops.” ~ Dr. Ahran Koo.

Lecture series explores how to leverage a French degree for success

March 28, 2023.Reading time 2 minutes.

Whether you are a current French student, a recent graduate, or someone interested in the language and culture, you are invited on this journey of discovery and exploration.

Papazian to give talk on Muslim and Alevi Armenians lecture

September 28, 2022.Reading time 2 minutes.

The lecture will be devoted to the officially Muslim and hence legally “non-Armenian” citizens of the Republic of Turkey who, drawing on their Armenian ancestors, Islamized or Alevized generations earlier, identify as Armenians today.

Fall Armenian Lecture Series begins with Der Matossian talk on ‘The Horrors of Adana’

August 12, 2022.Reading time 3 minutes.

Image of the The Horrors of Adana: Revolution and Violence in the Early Twentieth Century book cover. In a faded black and white image, three people look at the camera in front of a pile of debris.

Dr. Bedross Der Matossian will present an in-person lecture entitled “The Horrors of Adana: Revolution and Violence in the Early Twentieth Century” at 7 p.m. Friday, August 26, at the Whitten Boardroom of the Smittcamp Alumni House.

Artist 2Fik explores identity and isolating effects of dating apps

February 11, 2022.Reading time 3 minutes.

2Fik's different characters are shown all together

The Fresno State French Program kicks off their Spring 2022 lecture series with “ROMANCE AIN’T DEAD, 2FIK! An artistic project about dating apps, performing and curating our online selves.”

Lecture series focuses on the therapeutic benefits of art

February 9, 2022.Reading time 2 minutes.

The unique workshops are designed to benefit everyone, whether or not they are artists.

Lecture to explore migrants from Van and the transforming politics of representation in the 1850s-70s Ottoman Empire

March 9, 2021.Reading time 2 minutes.

In Dr. Dzovinar Derderian’s lecture, she will discuss how migrants or itinerants from provinces like Van, or more precisely “pandukhts” in Armenian, are often characterized in the existing scholarship and popular discourse as destitute and melancholic people.

CAH interim dean Chapman to present lectures on women leaders in antiquity

February 25, 2021.Reading time 2 minutes.

Discussions of three ancient women leaders who shaped their world as well as ours.

“Talk to the Hand”: Italian studies announces their Spring lecture series

February 5, 2021.Reading time 3 minutes.

There could be no more powerful image of the growing agency of Italian women in the early modern period than the raised hand of Judith in Artemisia Gentileschi’s painting “Judith and Her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes, 1623.” This woman’s gesture, who demands to be heard, evokes the taking up of paintbrushes, pens, and scientific instruments by women in Italy over the 300-year span.

Portuguese Beyond Borders Institute announces Spring events schedule

January 22, 2021.Reading time 6 minutes.

The Portuguese Beyond Borders Institute (PBBI) has announced its Spring 2021 events schedule, including panel discussions, lectures, book launches and even an original documentary film.